Joel P. Martin, Ph.D.

President, Triad West Inc.

Positively Powerful Events

A dynamic results-oriented professional with over 15 years’ international experience in communications, consulting, and training. Expertise in assisting organizations with facing, managing, and benefiting from diversity, creating leadership, and aligning workforces to vision, values, and mission for breakthrough performance:

• Instills practices that result in inclusive cultures. Consistently surpasses standard of excellence in training delivery.
• Has delivered high impact experiential human potential effectiveness trainings across the U.S. and internationally (China, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Republic of South Africa, Malaysia, France, Russia, Finland, and Latvia). Has assisted many thousands of individuals in transforming the quality of their lives, families, and work places. Experienced in delivery of transformational programs to beginners, advanced learners, and leaders of every socio-economic background.
• Appears in the transformation film The Answer.
• Designed and implemented five-year culture change initiative for customer service and diversity excellence. Employee satisfaction surveys exceeded national norms. Industry award-winning program.
• Director of Education and Training of the FraserNet PowerNetworking Conference for the past six years. Assisted Triad West client George Fraser in creating the premiere networking conference for Black and African American people.
• Certified Youth-at-risk Trainer, Global Traits Administrator and Facilitator, US Air Force Interest Based Negotiations Conflict Resolution System Facilitator
• Professional speaker. Has delivered keynote addresses before NAWBO, NAMD, and other organizations; MC and interviewer of celebrities for the AZ Black Film Showcase; author of How To Be A Positively Powerful Person! The Steps, The Practices & The Tools To Access Your Positive Power.
• Previously, the owner and creative director of award-winning Madison Avenue advertising agency, J.P. Martin Associates, Inc., where she directed a 20+ person staff in creating breakthrough creative concepts, integrated marketing programs, original music and films. Her programs have assisted companies Anheuser-Busch, Hess Oil, Army ROTC, Clairol, Black Enterprise, Essence, Squibb and Pfizer achieve successful new product introductions, enhanced corporate images, and target market penetration.

Professional Experience

President, Triad West, Inc.

1995 to Present

Oversee needs assessments training design, delivery, implementation, and administration. Manage multi-cultural teams of training, and administrative professionals. Create enrollment programs. Drive new business development, sub-contract and contract negotiations, and vendor agreements.

• Has worked with organizational leaders of Cold Stone Creamery, Accenture, ABHOW, Anheuser-Busch, The Mayor’s Office of Chicago. Subcontractor to Global Consortium LLC, CGL (Bayer), The Trium Group (Nokia), and Maxcomm Associates (3M-HIS, American Express, Michcon).
• Designer of award winning and industry leading Diversity University and Leadership Alignment programs for national senior citizen housing owner and manager. Instrumental in producing satisfaction surveys showing high marks for customer service and employee attitude. Employee satisfaction surveys exceeded national norms for service industries.
• Developed and delivered The New Organizational Leader training program to address the needs of newly promoted managers who are experts in their fields of chip design. Program provided professional and personal skills to new managers.
• On a select team of external facilitators for leadership curriculum for global consulting firm. Average participant rating of 4.8 on a 5.0 scale. Participants continued to describe the leadership development courses as the best they ever attended.
• Produced and delivered The Empowered Entrepreneur, The How To Be A Positively Powerful Person, and Positively Powerful public trainings and events to enhance attendees’ business development and interpersonal communication skills.

• Designed and directed a multi-task soft-skills and Work Readiness Training Program for the Mayor’s Office of Chicago that successfully assisted 72 inner city young men and women in finding jobs. Included screening, hiring and training of trainers, coaches and logistics people, participant follow up, and administration. 100% of those interviewed were hired.

Previous Experience

• Consultant and Trainer, Martin & Partners Inc.
• Trainer and Manager, Lifespring, Inc.
• President & Creative Director, J. P. Martin Associates, Inc. Advertising Agency
• Industrial Designer, Fulton & Partners
• McCaffrey McCall Advertising
• Audio-Visual Specialist IBM

Education

• Inducted into the Wharton Business School Society of Fellows
• Ph. D in Communications, Columbia Commonwealth University
• Masters of Arts, Psychology, Sonoma State University
• Bachelors in Education, Field of Visual Communications, Ohio State University

Affiliations

• American Homes and Services for the Aging, Delegate at Large
• Sister Cities of Scottsdale, Board Member
• Director of Education and Training, PowerNetworking Conference
• ABHOW, Board Member
• National Alliance of Market Developers, Emeritus Chairperson
• Consortium For Learning And Research In Aging (CLARIA), Past Board Member
• White House Conference on Small Business, Delegate
• Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
• American Red Cross Grand Canyon Chapter, Board Member

Recognition & Awards

• Distinguished Alumni Ohio State University
• International Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs
• Greater Phoenix Black Chamber of Commerce Community Advocate of the Year
• National Alliance of Market Developers Entrepreneur of the Year
• Has appeared on The Today Show, New York Times, Essence cover & feature, US News and World Report, Advertising Age, Fortune and Working Women

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